March 6, 2014

Get out your camera phones and shoot a selfie! The Post & Mail would like Whitley County residents to email their selfie pics for a special Saturday feature promoting area people.

Selfies can include you and a friend or family member. Those who submit photos must be willing to accept a reply message that includes 10 quick questions that require a couple of short answers. Your photo and your answers will be published in a weekend issue of The Post & Mail. This is a fantastic way to highlight the great people that make up Whitley County.

March 6, 2014

Little Turtle Elementary School will hold a carnival and silent auction to raise money for cancer research Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. Pictured are some of the auction items: a bench, basket, bike, a Joni Walker piece of art, and a quilt are just some of the items which will be in the silent auction and raffle. Pictured, from left, are Conner Shawver, Kendra Roberts, Tyler Maggart, Max Stetler and Abby Peterson.

March 6, 2014

COLUMBIA CITY â€” In five weeks, community members will unite in a cook-off competition to benefit teens.

Each year The Center for Whitley County Youth holds a dinner like no other. Calm buffet lines are traded in for four teams to do battle in the kitchen. Their weapons â€” tongs and ingredients. Their reward â€” money and awareness raised for The Center.

This yearâ€™s cook off will be held Thursday, April 10 at First Church of God. The event will start at 6:15 p.m., and the dinner is served for a freewill donation.

March 6, 2014

COLUMBIA CITY â€” Two men are dead after a late-night fire Wednesday.
Just before midnight, firefighters were called to 2480 Barr Street, in southeast Coesse, to a fully engulfed house fire.
According to fire scanner traffic, five people were in the home when it caught ablaze, including two children and three adults.
The children and two of the adults, the childrenâ€™s grandparents, made it out of the home safely.
Fire officials say the childrenâ€™s father was still trapped inside, and the grandfather went back into the home to rescue his son-in-law, but never returned.

March 6, 2014

Hannah Schaefer, a Columbia City High School senior, won the Soloist Competition, and Best Female Soloist in a Show at East Noble Show Choir competition March 1. Schaefer is a member of CCHS show choirs.